2) Your H&M finds have never been more popular or accepted.
An H&M spring/summer 09 look
Fashion Week countdown: Look on the bright side: The pluses to a recession-addled show season
Categorised as: fashion
Fashion Week countdown: Look on the bright side: The pluses to a recession-addled show season
(The style team has started keeping a running list of these in the office …)
1) You now have a reason to dust off your Miu Miu
bag from three seasons ago. But if you don’t have one, no worries. The It
bag is dead, remember?
bag from three seasons ago. But if you don’t have one, no worries. The It
bag is dead, remember?
Categorised as: fashion
Loving this: Tuxedo jacket done right
I’ve officially nixed my tuxedo jacket search thanks to the fear of the big R instilled in me through weeks of worsening financial news. I’m going to live vicariously through Penelope Cruz, who was here in London yesterday for a special screening of her Oscar-nominated film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” instead.
Categorised as: fashion
Quote of the day: Never mind the war, don’t wear khakis!
The dress code for the Bush era White House administration sounds like that of a parochial school from hell:
“‘I’ll never forget going to work on a Saturday morning, getting called down to the Oval Office because there was something [Bush] was mad about,’ said Dan Bartlett, who was counselor to Mr. Bush. ‘I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt, and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes. He wouldn’t even let me cross the threshold.’” (The New York Times)
Categorised as: fashion
And back in affordable land
It’s kind of funny to see how many trends have surfaced from the worst of the ’80s bin. First, harem pants (YSL made them beautiful and luxe, but the world still associates them with MC Hammer), then Bananarama style jumpsuits (YouTube them) and now — wait for it — acid wash denim. As great as these jeans look on the model in this Topshop campaign, I’m still wary.
Categorised as: fashion
Behind the scenes at Anne Valérie Hash’s studio
I visited Anne Valérie Hash’s showroom in Paris this past fall and made a mental note to write about it at some point because her work space is nothing short of amazing in that gilded, historically rich, specifically Parisian way. Then, lo and behold, I find out that she showed her couture collection today in a smaller presentation in her showroom, rather than a more costly runway show, and I had my opportunity. Here are a few photos of her space on Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle, which dates back to 1890. It once housed an iconic restaurant, brothel, Freemasonry lodge and German forces during World War II respectively.
The entrance
The showroom
Anne Valérie Hash (right) in her atelier
Categorised as: fashion
More couture favorites
Anne Valérie Hash and Givenchy creative
director Riccardo Tisci bring a young and understated sense of coolness to
couture week that makes a stark contrast to the more traditional,
larger-than-life quality of, say, Christian Lacroix or John Galliano’s work for
Christian Dior. If the couturiers jobs were indeed to “make the summer
collections relevant to a changed world,” according to The International Herald
Tribune’s Suzy Menkes, than Hash and Tisci have gotten it right.
Anne Valérie Hash
Givenchy (Coutorture)
Categorised as: fashion
Rich clothes, broke world
To be honest, in this economy, the couture
world seems completely foreign to me. It looks like some far-off, painfully exclusive, remote
island that you have to take an umpteen-hour commercial flight, jumper plane,
small boat and a camel to get to. You know those places exist. But, chances
are slim you’ll get there anytime soon. Still, recession or not, the shows must go
on. Here are a few of my favorites from today’s Chanel extravaganza.
Categorised as: fashion
Aretha Franklin a retail do, PETA don’t
I’m not ashamed to admit it: I own a few
vintage fur jackets. It keeps me warm in the most frigid temperatures. But I
certainly wouldn’t purchase a new fur, not that this lets me off the hook in
the eyes of those who are anti-fur. When they give my 1970s white fox dirty
looks on the train, I give them a defiant glare that dares them to splatter me in
paint. But my little stare-down anecdotes have got nothing on Aretha Franklin
and the Olsen twins’ PETA-style encounters. The animal rights group defaced their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with graffiti that reads “Fur Hag!”
Speaking of Aretha, the hat she wore
on inauguration day is a retail hit.
And on a more disturbing front, that woman
who hated on Michelle Obama for not wearing a black designer during inaugural
week is now receiving death threats.
Categorised as: fashion
Dandy circa 2009: Men’s wear gone crazy
Kanye West has clearly gotten swept up in the sartorial drama that is the Paris men’s shows (the Grammy winner sat front row about as much as the top editors did) because this photo of him and his entourage has a lot happening at once. We’ll stop writing and let the picture do the talking.
Categorised as: fashion
